Animus
Animus is a blend of art and function - serving as a 3D printed heat spreader core for candles - to prevent the formation of sinkholes in the wax and to provide structural reinforcement. This was created over four weeks for a university class.
The concept was to have organic shapes that were to be 3D printed out of aluminium, then electroplated with copper, making them evolving art pieces as the candle melts, while still fulfilling their core functions as a heat-spreader and structural reinforcement.
The core for these models were sculpted by hand from clay in order to get the forms correct with regards to scale and then 3D scanned using photogrammetry - then cleaned up and further sculpted in Blender to add more detail.
As a bonus, the artistic element of the cores encourage each candle to be reused and refilled, and any imperfections with the candle pour would be offset by the heat-spreader.
This one in particular was envisioned to be more of a travel candle, with a metal tin and a lower profile.
Overall, it was a fun little concept that was a bit more on the artistic side than you usually get to play with in industrial design projects.